Peter Walker

Peter Walker is an American guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts, who played in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. He studied raga with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan and mixed Indian music, folk and flamenco on two albums for Vanguard. He was musical director of Timothy Leary's psychedelic celebrations. Walker founded the Cambridge Folklore Center in Harvard Square after army service and was close to Sandy Bull, Karen Dalton, Tim Hardin and Fred Neil. His albums Rainy Day Raga (1966) and "Second Poem to Karmela" or Gypsies Are Important (1968) came out on Vanguard.